The sympathy of the entire community will be extended to the relatives and friends of the three brave officers who were murdered here Sunday. gang came to Santa Rosa; Image / Santa Rosa, 1920: S.F. Petaluma Daily Morning Courier, December 17, 1920, Son Died, Grim Cable to Mother of Boyd, Lynched, Special Dispatch to The Call. All credit for its success was given to the leader whom Barney called the Captain, and theres no dispute the mission was brilliantly planned and executed. The town centre is only 1 km away, the capital in 6 km and to the airport only 12 km. She was prevented by illness from attending the session according to a report received by the other directors. A full story of the lynching is told in the book, "Santa Rosa, a 20th Century Town," but Barnard's name does not appear. He deals in grapes and raises prunes and has a mind acute for getting on the happy side in marketing the fruit. Sheriff John M. Boyes stated Tuesday that the first work which he would undertake would be to ask the co-operation of every peace officer north of San Francisco to join in making this territory too hot for criminals or their associates. Most significantly were two conspiracies of silence, both of which remain (mostly) secret still today. The Matanzas Creek Winery offers June and July visitors a chance to enjoy its aromatic fields of blooming lavender, but its Estate Gardens and spectacular scenery are tourist . He is a county pioneer whom everybody knows, who does not wander far and fast with every wind that blows. -- Pensacola State College does not discriminate against any person on the basis of race, ethnicity, national origin, color, gender/sex, age, religion, marital status, pregnancy, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, or genetic information in its educational programs, activities, or employment. Making less than 5,000 cases of pinot noir, chardonnay, and pinot gris, Inman Wines is a true 'boutique' winery. The letters and reporter notes are archived at the Gaye LeBaron Collection housed at Sonoma State University. A phone message said it was reported there that the lynching was to take place at 11 oclock, and asked for information, but at that hour all was quiet on the streets and about the jail. The gruesome collection reminiscent of the late triple lynching here, drew the greatest attention from the visitors. Conspicuous among the crowds were many women and children, CASSASSA ARRESTED Mr. Young is an active business man and before he entered into the auto game with the Stephens car his friends knew that he must have satisfied himself perfectly as to the merits of the machine before taking it up and recommending it to his friends. They make few contributions to the other fellows ear. She then sent Coroner Phillips word that she would take care of the body. Also incorporated were later comments by Clarence H. Barney Barnard, the only member of the vigilantes to talk about it. 5 min read. Mrs. Newman was not present at the meeting. It was not unexpected; after Sheriff Jim Petray's murder and the subsequent riot at the jail, the county was awash with rumors that a lynching was in the works. The early meetings, including the March 26 and April 24 meetings, are designed as Community Conversations about Race and Ethnicity. At the Feb. 25 meeting, members split into various groups to discuss their own backgrounds and experiences with racial issues. But it seemed to work for as long as the county and towns were run by community leaders who were, in general, well respected and well educated by the standard of the times. The wreck has been visited by hundreds of sightseers, MAYNARD YOUNG HAS THE AGENCY FOR SALIENT SIX. His father, C. L. Ned Patteson also served as the popular fourth district Supervisor during the 1910s. BOYDS BODY HERE And it took him quite a while to asphyxiate, by not breaking his neck, he said. Ray Owen, co-author of the new edition of the cemeterys burial reference book is confident he has found their burying place, or at least the grave of Fitts. She said members of the Grand Army had requested its removal and had urged this in a letter she had received. Within days, a remarkable confession by an octogenarian member of the lynching vigilantes led to a series of ethical missteps, during which LeBaron and her editors and publishers may have become accomplices after the fact to the crime of murder, according to California statutes and an attorney at a journalism ethics organization. The Call of the 26th publishes the following further testimony in this case. It is understood that they sought to have the burial in the Fitts family plot in Odd Fellows cemetery here, but that the management of the cemetery refused to permit it, claiming that such action was justified by their rules and regulations. With only himself and three deputies on hand, Sheriff Boyes asked McMinn and Lattin to go the cemetery and see if their leaders would speak with him. Patteson is universally known in this section, and his selection will meet with popular approval. Believe it or not: Ray Lattins name still pops up in Today in History type newspaper columns because he was owner and trainer of King the wonder dog in the early 1940s. Had the gangsters not been murdered their arraignments would have been held that morning (although none of them could find a defense lawyer) but charges were dropped because of their deaths. In the Dec. 1, 1985Press Democrat, LeBaron regaled readers with a story about three murder suspects who were hustled out of the Santa Rosa jail around midnight and hanged in a cemetery on Dec. 10, 1920. But LeBaron and the owners of thePress Democratwere not protecting a whistleblower producing incriminating evidence of governmental wrongdoings. Announcement was previously made that Charles Valentos body had been sent to San Francisco, it having been claimed by the dead mans mother. Both Santa Rosa newspapers published four extras on Dec. 10 with the PD claiming 11,000 papers were sold and the Republican saying their total was exactly 23,416. Deputy Coroner Frank Welti created a mild sensation here this morning when he announced that the bodies of Terrance Fitts and Geo. Established in 2000 by Kathleen Inman, Inman Family Wines released its first vintage in 2002. His eyes big as saucers, he was just froze., And now in the transcript of the tape comes this curious passage: Everything was so well organized, everything went smooth the first group to go in got the keys from the sheriff, the acting sheriff, Erick Gelhaus.. While the newspapers usually didnt name members of a posse, Don was listed twice in 1915, searching for bandits and a missing man, plus being part of a 1913 opium raid on Sebastopols Chinatown. Some Healdsburg members of the mob which lynched Boyd, Valento and Fitts early this morning, are making no effort to hide their identity, according to reports from that city this morning. Ail of the machinery of the company is of the latest design for auto and tractor repair. The website fails to mention that Gelhaus fired eight shots into the child, Lopez, nor does it breathe a word about any of the many homicides committed by deputies empowered by the prerogatives of whiteness to terrorize and kill members of disempowered groups. This exhibit will be outside the regular farm center exhibits and will be staged in the industrial tent, which will in itself be a unique feature, as it will be the only horticultural and agricultural exhibit in that tent. Where was the Captain during all this? Victims of the 1920 lynching in Santa Rosa, CA. Of the mostly male victims, 45 were killed by police gunshot; 12 by police beatings; seven by suicide during law enforcement actions; six during police car chases; and 45 while in sheriffs custody. She reported that an anonymous member of the lynching party, who was in his early 20s when he joined the group, had visited her office and confessed to the crime, because his conscience told him, not that the act was wrong, but that history should be made accurate.. Mr. and Mrs. Tom Young received a letter from their son Fred, who is in the aviation section at San Diego, announcing that he had experienced his first flight. On all sides were heard the remarks, They got what was coming to them, and Good riddance and a saving of money for their trial. All seemed to join in unanimous approval of the ghastly procedure. Wine lovers aren't the only ones that get to have fun in Santa Rosa. Instead, that morning they used the Supervisors chambers at the courthouse to hold the coroners inquest.1 But that didnt just focus on the lynching; testimony also covered the vigilante raid on the jail, details of the murder of the lawmen five days earlier and prior doings of the gangsters around Santa Rosa. San Francisco.Captain of Detectives Duncan Matheson last Saturday mailed a letter to G. W. Hoyle, District Attorney of Sonoma county, under the direction of chief of Police O'Brien, in which he sets forth that an investigation has been made and that he has established that no members of . He was elected County Coroner from 1926 to 1940 when he retired because of ill health. LYNCHING 3 MEN SANTA ROSA CALIFORNIA GANG 1920 Description Original old flyer printed by the Santa Rosa Press Democrat shows Three Members of the Howard Street gang come to roost.In a Santa Rosa oa The two hopped off on Mather Field at 1:22 p. m. and arrived at Santa Rosa at 2:30 p. m. after encountering a heavy fog at intervals. LeBaron asked Barnard if he and the others were afraid they would be arrested. The mob that took from the Sonoma County jail the trio of gangsters arrested Sunday after the murder of three peace officers was drawn from a wide area of the north of bay region, as well as San Francisco. Many in town, however, were probably awake and anxiously awaiting just such a signal that they had pulled off a perfect crime and killed three men. AskUs@pensacolastate.edu FITTS BURIED Santa Rosa is full of local neighborhoods, art, and historic districts. Through both the brilliant planning and great good luck, everything went off perfectly. If not, he will be buried In the Santa Rosa potters field. The Standard Machine Works, the new company formed by Don Patteson and L. B. Mr. Young is confidant that he will do well in the handling of this car and already has had many inquiries concerning the same. 501. The car was injured beyond repair except at its home workshops, and it will be shipped to Riverside by rail. For questions please email us at: The new South Santa Rosa Clinic, located at 2285 Challenger Way, is the culmination of years of work. Finally, there were related things that happened in the days (and years) that followed and must be mentioned to complete the history of these events. Keep in mind this was 1920 and in that era Americans did not shy from all things morbid or gruesome, particularly when it came to dead outlaws. LeBaron says that she took notes for her original story about the anonymous vigilante without tape recording him, so as not to spook him. But four years later, on Aug. 29, 1989, she tape recorded a repeat interview with the now-90-year-old vigilante in Healdsburg. LeBaron: Were you the only one in your family? Several of these masks were brought to Santa Rosa by a member of the Democrat staff, and are now on exhibition at this office. When I pointed this out to Lynn Prime, the curator of the LeBaron Collection at Sonoma State, she was unable to explain the coincidence. Fun story #2: Serving on the draft board with Maynard was Deputy Sheriff Joe Ryan. The Press Democrat, which regularly ran glance at the past type nostalgia columns, never mentioned the lynching in years to come. Lebarons retelling of the lynching of George Boyd, Terry Fitts and Spanish Charley Valento was not in the least bit sympathetic toward the dead men, who appear to have been rather vicious criminals, members of the Howard Street gang in San Francisco, who reportedly raped two women the day before Thanksgiving. St. Francis Winery and Vineyards. It is situated on Santa Rosa Creek, at the foot of the Sonoma Mountains, 50 miles (80 km) north-northwest of San Francisco. A photograph, festooned with pieces of the nooses, was the centerpiece of a display in the Sonoma County Sheriffs Office created shortly after the lynching, according to historical newspaper reports. Shouts of n-word, images of lynchings interrupt Sonoma County's virtual meeting on homelessness Alejandro Serrano July 13, 2020 Updated: July 13, 2020 6:35 p.m. The region is home to about 500,000 residents, many of whom work in unincorporated rural areas or small towns north, east and west of the city. Racing through the narrative of MULTIPLE crimes meant serious questions would not be asked or just given perfunctory attention; inconsistencies with testimony before the Grand Jury were left unclarified. On that cold morning, 65 years prior, huge, bold, blackPress Democratheadlines had proclaimed,STATE IS FAIRLY WILD OVER GANG LYNCHING, ACCLAIM MEMBERS OF THE MOB TO BE HEROES, TWO VICTIMS CRY FOR MERCY, BOYD UTTERS GROAN. In the Dec. 1, 1985 Press Democrat, LeBaron regaled readers with a story about three murder suspects who were hustled out of the Santa Rosa jail around midnight and hanged in a cemetery on Dec. 10 . In early March, the Sonoma County Board of Supervisors honored retiringPress Democratreporter Gaye LeBaron for chronicling the people, culture and history of Sonoma County.. LeBaron explained, If there was a chance the district attorney would have come after Barney, I would not have written the story. But she still would have known about the murders. Takeaways were that the militarily disciplined lynch mob was organized by a Healdsburg businessman called the Captain, who was later elected county coroner. He came to Jay, Florida, where he incurred his fathers debts. We managed to overlook so much, LeBaron said. Petray and Jewett started a little pursuit themselves, with the result that in about the time it takes a watch to tick, they had the two celebrators safely tucked away in the back seat of Youngs machine. Last year I went to the Haunted HayRide LA, at it was PERFECT. Maynard Young of Healdsburg was here yesterday and madr arrangements with the directors of the Sonoma County Fair for exhibit space for Healdsburg and Dry Creek valley districts. A culture of lynching. Step back in time with a visit to Historic Railroad Square. Those conspiracies of silence are more like appendices to the lynching story, so Im breaking them out into parts of their own otherwise this chapter would be uncomfortably long, and the transcripts of sources would be a jumble of mixed articles spanning from 1919 to 1922. var _ctct_m = "d3e1dd689859431da495eb1970ed5ac7"; Pensacola State College is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges to award baccalaureate and associate degrees and certificates. The Threats to the Grizzlys Fragile Recovery are Expanding, Instead of Stuck in Court or on Some Future Ballot, Legal Marijuana Should Be On DeSantiss Desk ASAP, The Rise of the Consultant Governing Class, Demanding Transparency in East Palestine, Ohio, The Problem with Israels So-Called Crisis of Democracy, The Ukraine War One Year in: Nine False Narratives, When Neoliberals Declared War on the Poor, Liquidating the Legacy of Revolution: Ideology of the Russian Invasion. In fact, report says, they are being acclaimed as public heroes. So Coroner Phillips worries that Boyd and Fitts might fall into the hands of some medical college were probably unfounded, but we can say that only by viewing history with our perfect 20/20 hindsight. Saint Rose of Lima was canonized by Pope Clement on August 30th 1671. He leased 8,000 acres near Willits and attracted many local investors and when that failed tried drilling near Eureka. (The 1900 census shows a Mary Riley living at 856 Second St. with her son Victor, who was the same age as Boyd. in the Airport Business Center north of Santa Rosa, but instead will add . Three men: George Boyd, Terry Fitts, and Charles Valento, all members of. Dec. 12. It was two weeks to Christmas; there was shopping to do and dinners to plan. The places that harbor such criminals must be closed up, and kept closed. Charles Valentos mother in San Francisco was quickly found, although the 70 year-old woman was reportedly unaware of her sons recent infamy. Almost thirty years passed until July 1949, when staff writer Frank Herbert (he of sci-fi novel DUNE fame) penned a two-part feature on the murders and lynchings that somehow managed to get almost every single fact wrong. Budget. She repeatedly calls for her son and moans, My Boy, what have they done to you. She had not known he had been in trouble until notified of the death. Around midnight on the night of June 20, 1867, Byrd Brumfield used his pocket knife to slash John Strong to death at Griffin's Saloon. After the dead gangsters were cut down they would be taken to the Welti mortuary at 795 Fourth street, which doubled as the town morgue. Or check out the most ghetto cities and the most dangerous cities in Florida. During the operation the sheriff was moved to the rear office in the cellblock, watched over by five guards. This is a postscript to the series on the 1920 lynchings in Santa Rosa, THERE WILL BE PRICES PAID and covers one of the conspiracies of silence following the murder of the gangsters: The mystery of what happened to their bodies. He was also considered another possible candidate to fill out the term. STANDARD MACHINE WORKS TO OPEN IN HEALDSBURG. Pilgrim African Baptist Church; NAACP of Santa Rosa County; Overcoming Obstacles Outreach Ministry; Santa Rosa Democratic Black Caucus; Santa Rosa Historical Society and St. Marys Episcopal Church. He was the boss of the countys motor pool in the mid-1910s which could be why he was spotted driving places with Sheriff Smith. In late 1920 (roughly thirty hours before the lynching, in fact) Ryan told Young to be on the lookout for two 14 year-old runaway boys. Young stopped his car and discovered that the gesticulating gent had a companion near an automobile which they had left standing at the side of the highway. At the same time as The Press Democrat was assembling the data of the lynching, messages were flashed to the outside world. Though Santa Rosa is the main town in California's famous wine county, it's the nearby Napa Valley that gets a lot of the fame and fortune. Until such time as they are interred, he feels that it is his duty to give out no information on the subject what ever. The company has a lease of the Hiatt garage, on West street and the machinery is being installed this week. Interviewed by the San Francisco Call, Phillips made the waters even murkier by saying neither Boyd nor Fitts had been buried to his knowledge. In any case, news reports that listed the names of the deputies on jail duty that night did not include a Gelhaus. The LeBaron Collection contains a letter from a woman stating that her father, Ray Lattin, was the deputy who gladly handed over the keys to the vigilantes. Nice communities dont try to batter down the jailhouse door or parade by the thousands through a morgue. Its estimated 2019 population was 178,127. This was on the streets more than two hours before any other newspaper appeared, with only an abridged story and many of the details incorrect. That would be particularly true in the village-sized community of Healdsburg, where Petray came from one of the prune-growing family dynasties of Alexander Valley. The lawlessness of the thing is what appalls me, was District Attorney George W. Hoyles statement early this morning when informed of the lynching. Fitts as a boy had played about the tree before he became the despair of a respectable family. But just as he reached the point of making the dive, one of the wings of the plane collided with the top of a small oak tree. Sexton Mets said the tree had been hewn down under an order issued by Mrs. Frank C. Newman, president of the board of directors of the Rural Cemetery association. Young, and by his wife, who had come to Healdsburg to be present when he arrived. DON PATTESON was a machinist and co-owner of the Standard Machine Works. The Santa Rosa is perfect for relaxed family holidays and now it . But if you stay, from now on, were all one. Barney repeated much the same thing in his 1989 interview, except changing the speech to end with, after tonight, weve got an active war.. MyPSC Workday Help PirateQ eLearning. The lynching was done on Friday but vandalism on the tree continued unabated through the weekend and to such an extent that an expert was asked if it would survive. Making national news, the cemetery was the site of a famous lynching in 1920. She agreed that the countywide rate of police killing has skyrocketed in tandem with 30 years of radical change in racial demographics, observing, Everybodys angry now. Our hearts are still broken, Anderson-Steele said of the lynchings. Harvest Festivals, Pumpkin patches, mazes, hayrides, haunted house? Those mysteries join a substantial list of what-if scenarios where something could have easily gone awry and many men from Healdsburg could have ended up arrested or even dead. With him were the Healdsburg visitors, or at least Young and McMinn; Lattins whereabouts were not mentioned, although the letter to Gaye LeBaron claimed he gave the keys to the mob, which cant be literally true. The death certificates signed by Phillips on December 13 show they were indeed buried on the 11th in part of the Santa Rosa Rural Cemetery. whose family has been connected with official life in this county for years. Also, it would have been impossible to conceal newly-dug graves. PETRAY FUNERAL WILL BE HELD TODAY IN HEALDSBURG, Both Mayor Rutherford and Chief of Police George W. Mathews announced yesterday that outlawry and flouting of the law must come to an end in Santa Rosa. How revealing, though, this was a top concern of his at the time. Snyder suggested that theNew York Timeswasnotethically compelled to volunteer Daniel Ellsbergs name to the FBI when he gave reporters top secret files purloined from the RAND Corporation, known as the Pentagon Papers. The vigilantes burst through the jailhouse door just a few minutes later which suggests Lattin and/or McMinn gave the green light to launch the assault. I asked LeBaron why she had not turned Barnard over to law enforcement. Now they were buried, why continue the subterfuge? George Boyd, Terence Fitts, and Charles Valento were hanged for killing three law officers. Patuloy naman ang operasyon ng sumusunod na opisina sa Enero 18: Napa Valley is world famous for its wine. That of Fitts it is said was turned over to the relatives but not buried. So now we come back to our starting place: Who were the vigilantes, and who was the Captain? From the Argus-Courier: While the sisters were with Welti brainstorming about Plan B, obstacles also arose about what to do with George Boyds corpse. A local historian has created a spreadsheet of 115 deaths attributed to Sonoma County police forces since 1989. Within half an hour after the lynching occurred, The Press Democrat had two photographers on the scene, and shortly afterwards Ernest Ridley with a finished photograph of the three men was making fast time in a high-powered car to Sausalito, where a powerful launch was waiting to convey him across the bay to Meiggs wharf, the nearest point. Children decorated school auditoriums with colorful bunting before performing holiday pageants. It now becomes my duty as district attorney to conduct an investigation to determine, if possible, who are responsible for this lawless act.. Through the co-operation of Captain T. S. Voss, acting for Major B. M. Atkinson, Commanding Officer at Mather Field, the Bee is enabled to publish to-day the photograph of the three gangsters hanged by the mob at Santa Rosa early this morning as they appeared swinging from the limb of an oak tree in the cemetery there. The evolution of the story as told in the additions and changes to the PD extras was summarized and partially transcribed in the previous chapter. The Standard Machine Works opened while he was away in the service so he never worked there; if he had been inside previously it would have been as a guy who walked in because he needed his magneto fixed or something. The Santa Rosa County Board of County Commissioners serves as the legislative and policy setting body of Santa Rosa County as established under Section 125 of the Florida Statutes. As with the start on the previous day, sufficient momentum was not obtained for the big plane to rise above the telegraph wires, and Fred resorted to his trick of that day to dive beneath the wires. That Santa Rosa and Sonoma county be immediately cleaned of all undesirable characters was the edict issued by the sheriffs office and the chief ot police yesterday. The three men were Maynard Young, Ray Lattin and Joe McMinn.1, They were, of course, unmasked, and did not reveal that one of them and quite likely all three were members of the vigilante party. The committee found a highly polarized and charged atmosphere in respect to community-police relations., In 2018, the newly-formed Independent Office of Law Enforcement Review and Outreach (IOLERO) reported that the Sheriffs work force was 78 % self-described white. It is now about 72 % white, with a sudden influx of Latinx employees. The Radical Senate: James Abourezk of South Dakota, America is Not a Racist Country: How Nikki Haley Became Israels Candidate for the White House, Three Reasons (Other Than Age) Why Joe Biden Should Not Run Again For President, The Global South Refuses Pressure to Side With the West on Russia, The 20th Anniversary of the Sociocide of Iraq by Bush/Cheney. Lieutenant W. A. Maxwell and Cadet L. H. Scott were assigned to the trip. In January 1986, LeBaron published another follow up, focused on whether the hanging tree was perhaps an oak and not a locust. Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. THE VELVET HAMMER Heres How We Fix That. Then his eyes caught another ring, and another, and another; then a dainty little pendant, set in opals and pearls rolled out onto the floor, apparently from nowhere. Association Secretary Frank Welti resigned on the spot.2. In the petition another sister, Mrs. Cecil Riley of Santa Rosa, joined, and Fitts face was covered while a crowd of 3000, including women with babies in arms, viewed his body and those of George Boyd and Charles Valento. It is also said that relatives of Fitts intended to claim his body and give it interment. If you accept the echoed word of Mr. Maynard Young; youre sure to bite, the car is right, you simply cant be stung. By all odds the most sensational event that ever took place in the history of the county, it was treated by this newspaper accordingly. Open in Google Maps . Small town papers in those days were like collective FaceBook pages, reporting every mundane detail of who was doing what; as a result we can roughly map out who Jim Petray socialized with, from hunting deer to attending events to participating in fraternal groups (Knights of Pythias, Elks, Masons, Woodmen, Native Sons). Finding Terry Fitts relatives was likewise easy as he was from Santa Rosa and his two sisters were well known, one of them still living in the area. Other partners in the local coalition are the LEAP Committee of the Milton City Council; Milton First United Methodist Church Youth Group; Mt. After a day spent organizing the crew, they gathered together for the first time on Tuesday night to begin rehearsing the mission in the back part of the Standard Machine Works building. Maynard Young Arranges Special Exhibit Space for North End of Sonoma County. Fitts, and his selection will meet with popular approval cities in Florida says, they are acclaimed., Pumpkin patches, mazes, hayrides, Haunted house and Ethnicity hanged killing. The ghastly procedure he became the despair of a respectable family on whether the tree. 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